2018 and 2019 saw some intersting trends come into skateboarding, from baggy clothes to complete kooky camo trousers.
One trend that has come back is big puffy shoes from the 90s and early 2000s like the DC Lynx and the éS Accel and éS tribo which a basically the size as Kobe’s shoe boxes. One shoe that has seen a comeback is the Osiris D3 (2001), it was a shoe that was released in the early 2000s and quickly became a famous shoe. The shoe is made of complete leather with a sort of sideways E on the side of the shoe, basically the shoe is indistructable. Youtuber Christian Flores who does skate shoe reviews tried to skate them. let’s just say if a nuclear war does break out, those shoes are gonna be the last trace of humans.
Last year at SLS London I saw a photographer who was wearing some white and yellow D3’s, some size 40 (I’m guessing the size I obviously didn’t ask) Jeans, a world industries T shirt and a 411-VM Cap, basically he’s the exact person he probably was in the 90’s. Oh he also looked like a total Kook.
Anyway Osiris are still selling the shoe from £50 (which if your American do the conversion yourself you lazy f**k) I guess that’s the standard price for shoes these days so you’ll probably be better off just getting some Janoskis or some decent skate shoes that aren’t huge and actually have board feel.
Anyway I mean if you like that style of shoe then go for it but if you like normal thin skate shoes then don’t go near them.
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